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when I take away the or die &quot;Can not run ssh $!\n&quot;;<br />
- the script runs fine without any problems<br />

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when I take away the or die "Can not run ssh $!\n";
- the script runs fine without any problems


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I think the system call is returning non 0, but you are looking for 0 on succeds on success r &nbsp;die. &nbsp;Try this:<br />
$command = q{ssh -v -C root@sigma.com &nbsp;&quot;cd $dbpath/setup;source setenv.sh;cd../scripts; ./export_data.sh&quot;}; <br />
$return_code = system($command);<br />
# check return_code to see what defines success or failure.
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I think the system call is returning non 0, but you are looking for 0 on succeds on success r  die.  Try this:
$command = q{ssh -v -C root@sigma.com  "cd $dbpath/setup;source setenv.sh;cd../scripts; ./export_data.sh"};
$return_code = system($command);
# check return_code to see what defines success or failure.

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Are you getting &quot;Can not run ssh illegal seek&quot;?<br />
the or will happen when the `` returns &quot;0&quot; or &quot;&quot;<br />
and $! will be whatever happened to be left in $! from earlier
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Are you getting "Can not run ssh illegal seek"?
the or will happen when the `` returns "0" or ""
and $! will be whatever happened to be left in $! from earlier

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Hi ;<br />
I have a perl script that does a whole bunch of stuff and at the end ssh's to a remote server and runs a script from there.<br />
It looks like it is correctly ssh and running the commands.However, I get a Illegal Seek error- what does this mean?<br />
This is how I ssh and run the cmds<br />
`ssh -v -C root@sigma.com &nbsp;&quot;cd $dbpath/setup;source setenv.sh;cd../scripts; ./export_data.sh&quot;` or die &quot;Can not run ssh $!\n&quot;;<br />
What does illegal seek mean?
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Hi ;
I have a perl script that does a whole bunch of stuff and at the end ssh's to a remote server and runs a script from there.
It looks like it is correctly ssh and running the commands.However, I get a Illegal Seek error- what does this mean?
This is how I ssh and run the cmds
`ssh -v -C root@sigma.com  "cd $dbpath/setup;source setenv.sh;cd../scripts; ./export_data.sh"` or die "Can not run ssh $!\n";
What does illegal seek mean?

Perl -ssh- Illegal seek

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